Losses and Aviation Safety
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Aviation History / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
ANG F-16 pilots who were tasked to ram United Airlines Flight 93 recall being ready to Sacrifice their Lives on 9/11
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
B-52 pilot recalls when he and his crew had to eject after their BUFF was shot down by a USAF F-100 Super Sabre
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The Totskoye Nuclear Exercise, the deadliest military exercise in history where Soviets dropped an atomic bomb on their own soldiers
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Civil Aviation / Losses and Aviation Safety
Boeing 757 pilot recalls when he and his captain did an unrestricted climb to 10,000 feet (with no passengers aboard)
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
F-8 Pilot recalls how a good brief by his Flight Lead saved his bacon during a night carrier landing with his Crusader radio not working
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The crews never saw the ship once! USS Midway Sailor recalls when during a typhoon 35 planes (a mix of F-4s, A-6s and A-7s) successfully landed at night on the carrier.
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / Space
NASA Contractor tells why the Space Shuttle smelled quite bad when ground crews got aboard after a flight to clean and unload
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
First U-2 pilot recalls when the only U-2 pilot to fly over Moscow nearly died and crashed into Red Square after he almost bit his poison cyanide pill in half
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The story of the Tornado that hit Carswell AFB and damaged two-thirds of SAC’s B-36 Peacemaker Force
Airshows / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Video shows the moment a Patrouille Suisse F-5 Tiger II hits a flock of birds during Radom Air Show
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Time-lapse video shows Moody Maintainers replacing damaged horizontal stabilizer of an A-10 Warthog to prevent it from being decommissioned
Aircraft Carriers / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / U.S. Navy
USS Ronald Reagan Yellow Shirt recalls when he was nearly killed by an F/A-18 that smashed on the flight deck after having inadvertently caught a wire during a wave-off
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Russian aircraft have become less aggressive toward US MQ-9 drones after the arrival of F-35 stealth fighters in the Middle East
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Warthog pilot tells why ‘Taxiing in the A-10 feels like leg day at the gym.’ (Not all of the Warthogs have a parking brake!)
Civil Aviation / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Wagner chief Prigozhin dead in Embraer Legacy 600 corporate jet crash northwest of Moscow
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
‘Talk to me. I’m scared:’ US Navy F-8 Crusader pilot recalls when the LSO couldn’t talk to him during a night carrier landing
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Civil Aviation / Losses and Aviation Safety
